Collaboration Systems Group is your WAN optimization Experts.  We are Riverbed Certified Solution Professionals and we are ready to help you solve all your collaboration needs and problems!!

Riverbed’s Steelhead WAN Accelerators change the way you do business by addressing the poor performance of existing WAN and VPN connections. 

How do they do this?

By addressing the real issue of the inefficiencies of the lines, which is latency.  Most people believe that if only they could afford more bandwidth, the problem would go away.  They wrongly assume that all the “big companies” can afford the bandwidth they need to make this practical……..truth is, it doesn’t work any better for them and in fact many companies are spending big dollars on bandwidth they’ll never be able to use.

Riverbed’s solution is to address the latency, which is the round trip time it takes for an individual packet of information to be requested, sent, received, and acknowledged, before the next packet of information can be sent.  This is what causes your delay.  Riverbed addresses this problem by reducing the number of round trips required to receive the data requested by doing three things:

1.       TCP packet Compression-deliver more information each round trip

2.       Scalable Data Referencing-through de-duplication, only send what we’ve never seen before, and group information together and deliver in larger packets

3.       Transaction Prediction-pre-fetch what we know the user will want next

You can access our pre-recorded presentation on how these work by clicking here

CSG’s expertise with Riverbed is in assisting Architects, Engineers, and Construction firms with Collaboration and Consolidation.

Collaboration:  A/E/C firms typically use FTP sites and offsite web portals to distribute data to their remote project teams and partners.  While this process works, it’s highly inefficient as it does not allow for real time collaboration, and permits duplication and multiple revisions of drawing files.  With the new BIM-based Model centric workflow, we’re now dealing with much larger files than ever, and a workflow that requires a multi user model, rather than individual CAD files.  View our Revit performance brief here

Consolidation:  Removing the data stored at the remote offices negates the need to have remote office infrastructure, saving money.  In addition to the tangible cost savings from removing remote servers, tape drives, and other infrastructure, there are also the “soft” savings of a more enhanced and integration workflow.  View of cost savings brief here.

Having CSG as your Riverbed partner not only brings the industry’s clear leader in WAN accelerator technology (view the Gartner report here), but also brings CSG personnel’s combined 60+ years of CAD software experience to your table. 

For more information on this amazing solution follow the link below to the manufacturers website.